LMLG Blog

Costa Rica is renowned for its excellent environmental record, but with the construction of 150km road beside the San Juan river, which it shares with Nicaragua, it appears to be going against that reputation by causing enormous damage to the environment.

Nicaragua has recently been hit by extreme weather conditions with several people killed and hundreds of thousands rendered homeless. John Perry and Dani Gent are currently on route to Nicaragua and we will post first hand reports on the situation from them as soon as we receive them.

Irma Sehwerert, who is the mother of one of the 'Miami Five' visited Masaya in September 2011 and met with FElix Trejos, the Mayor. John Perry was among the 60 people who attended the event which inspired the following article:http://www.l.....

One of the more unusual events in the long history of popular uprisings against despotic regimes took place in Nicaragua on the night of 27 June 1979. The grip of the Somoza dynasty, which had ruled the country for more than 40 years, was slipping. The Sandinistas had advanced from their rural strongholds into the towns, and by early June th.....